A parish church in Battersea is recorded in 1157 but this was built here in Battersea Church Road and overlooking the river in 1775-6, to the designs of Joseph Dixon, and restored under the direction of A.W. Blomfield in 1876-8. An element of the previous church built into this one is the east window which is thought to have been the work of Bernard van Linge sometime about 1631. When Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), posing as Mr Booth, was living in Chelsea in the last few years of his life, he would occasionally be rowed, with Mrs Booth, across the river. He could then sit in the porch of the church and enjoy the evening air. Turner's boatmen were of the same family as those who took Whistler out on the river. There are about the church several monuments particularly of the Bolingbroke / St John family who owned the manor house in Battersea.

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The Buildings of England - London 2: South

Chelsea